[zeromq-dev] BDFL literally

Brian Knox bknox at digitalocean.com
Thu Oct 6 12:52:34 CEST 2016


That's great news Trevor

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:18 AM Trevor Bernard <trevor.bernard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Don't worry about sponsorship. My company will pay to renew them for
> the next while (within reason). Just send me the details and I'll pay
> the the bill.
>
> -Trev
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Osiris Pedroso <opedroso at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Could you please list them?
> > I would like to sponsor a few, but would like to check them out first.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad. Regularly foiled by autocorrect. But duck it..
> >
> >> On Oct 5, 2016, at 17:49, Ewen McNeill <zeromq at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 20/04/16 6:16, Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> >>> So without further ado I'd like to hand the stage over to my dear
> >>> friend, Mr Did You Really Add UDP Support to Libzmq In One Day
> >>> Doron....  dramatic pause... SOMECH!!
> >>
> >> For the record, Doron and I have now transferred the ZeroMQ domains
> that were previously owned by Pieter over to Doron (Doron already had
> administrative control over them; this just changes the Registrant field as
> well).
> >>
> >> Thanks to Doron for assisting with the transfer, and for paying the
> US$7.50/domain transfer fee.
> >>
> >> Pieter does have some other domains (mostly related to his books or
> non-ZeroMQ related projects) which will expire over the next 12 months. For
> some of these I am trying to finalise transfers of the domains to other
> people (who I have emailed directly).  A few of these (mostly iMatix
> related ones) will renew at least while there are still funds available in
> Pieter's registrar account.  For the others it is likely they will just be
> allowed to expire over the next 12 months.
> >>
> >> If there is a domain name that you know that Pieter holds for which you
> would like to see the project it is related to continue, feel free to get
> in touch.  Where there's a clear community supported successor to look
> after the domain/project I'm happy to help facilitate a transfer of the
> domain ownership.
> >>
> >> Alternatively the .org/.com/.net registry model does allow _anyone_ to
> pay the renewal fee on a domain, even one that they don't own.  So if you
> don't want to assume ownership of a domain, but do want to see it "stick
> round longer", then paying the renewal for another year could be a good
> option.  This is probably most relevant to the domains related to Pieter's
> books.  (All Pieter's domains are at Gandi, who definitely allow payment by
> anyone with a Gandi account for any domain at Gandi.)
> >>
> >> Finally, thanks to the people who paid to renew:
> >>
> >> restms.org
> >> imatix.com
> >>
> >> over the last month (imatix.com now expires in 2021; and restms.org
> now expires in 2020).
> >>
> >> Ewen
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> zeromq-dev mailing list
> >> zeromq-dev at lists.zeromq.org
> >> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
> > _______________________________________________
> > zeromq-dev mailing list
> > zeromq-dev at lists.zeromq.org
> > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
> _______________________________________________
> zeromq-dev mailing list
> zeromq-dev at lists.zeromq.org
> http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/attachments/20161006/b529745a/attachment.htm>


More information about the zeromq-dev mailing list